//------------------------------// // 4. Nightmare Roommate // Story: Sonic The Hedgehog x My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale // by BronySonicFan //------------------------------// It was nighttime in Maretime Bay, as the four mares and the hedgehog in the Crystal Brighthouse were sleeping peacefully in their respective beds. Suddenly, a shadowy floating figure was passing over Sunny, then Sonic, then Zipp, and then finally Pipp, who didn't had her bed sheet some reason as she toss and turn with a giggle in her sleep. Then, the shadowy figure revealed to be some kind of ghost with a smiley face, and hover next to Pipp, which woke up slowly opening her eyes. Once she saw the 'ghost', she started to shake in terror and screamed in panic as she flew around the room, which cause Sunny to wake up from her screaming. "Wake up! WAKE! UP!" Pipp cried out as she shook Sunny awake, then turned to the ghost. "Gho-o-o-ost!" she cried out. The ghost came right in front of them, and now both Sunny and Pipp panicked screaming as the two mares hugged each other in fright, then they spread out while the ghost flew around. "No! No no no no no no no!" Sunny cried out in panic. The ghost then came in front of Zipp's bed as she worked up. Zipp rubbed her eyes to see what's going on, then saw the ghost in front of her. She screamed in panic and she jumped out of her bed, flying away to get away from the ghost. Various screams were heard around the room as the three ponies tried to get away from the ghost, flying or running back and forth on the entire room to hide or get away from the ghost. Sunny hide behind her bed, and looked at the ghost cornered Zipp to the wall. Suddenly, Sonic woke up in a bad mood, with his quills a mess and an angry expression. He looked from his bed at the 3 mares terrified by the ghost, which Sonic looked at with even more annoyance. Still in his bed, he awakened his new power, charged electricity into his fist, pointed a finger at the ghost, and let out a small shock. When it hit the ghost, he immediately fell to the ground like it was nothing. The 3 mares looked at Sonic in surprise, while he was just furious and his eyes lit up blue. But then they turned green again, Sonic stretched a little, scratched his head, took his blanket and lay down again, immediately falling asleep. The thee mares looked at each other, and then slowly walked towards the 'ghost', expecting that it would just woke up again, but it didn't happened. "Hey! Hold on…" Sunny yelled, as she narrowed her eyes in realization. She walked towards the switch light and turned the lights on, revealing that the 'ghost' was just a bedsheet. "Hey, that's my bedsheet!" Pipp exclaimed, picking it from the ground with a frown. Sunny then looked over at Izzy, who was still sleeping, but her horn was glowing, meaning that she was the one who levitated the bedsheet and kept moving it around like if it was a ghost. "Thanks, Izzy..." Pipp said irritated to the sleeping unicorn, not caring if she heard her or not. Pipp then inhaled and flew back to her bed. "I am like, so super traumatized right now. I'll be lucky to get any sleep!" she exclaimed, as Sunny turned off the lights and got back to her bed, and Zipp did as well. Sunny yawned as she lay on her bed with her eyes closed. "Just shut your eyes, count pegasheep, and--" she instructed, but was cut off by Izzy and her annoying snoring. "Glitter glitter glitter glitter glitter glitter…" Izzy mumbled between her snores, as she twisted and turned on her bed with a smile. Pipp, Zipp and Sunny were both annoyed at Izzy's snoring and mumbling, as Pipp placed a pillow over her head trying to block out Izzy’s noise, Zipp groaned and placed her blanket over her head and Sunny groaned as Izzy mumbling in her sleep. The only one who wasn't even hearing the snores was Sonic, since he was already deep sleeping. The morning sun came up as a rooster crows outside of the Crystal Brighthouse. Izzy was in the kitchen as she sang to herself in a cheerful tone, with a tiara in her head. "Ha! This is how a unicorn sings, first thing in the morning. Oo-ooh!" she sang as she hummed to herself and she danced in the kitchen. Izzy then found a hairspray can, she twirled it for a bit and then sprayed herself with it, styling her mane. She then found a crossword book and grabbed the pen with her hoof as she kept humming and wrote something in the crossword book. She tossed the book away as she hummed and placed the pen in her mouth, then goes to the refrigerator and found peanut butter in it. She places the pen down to grab the peanut butter, which means she placed the pen in the fridge. Then she placed peanut butter in some bread, getting a little messy in the process with some peanut butter on the table and some on her hoof. She continued humming and grabbed Pipp’s phone, taking a selfie with her peanut butter, getting some peanut butter on Pipp’s phone in the process. She put the phone down on the table and dropped the peanut butter bread on the floor, then trotted away from the kitchen. In the main room, Sunny, Zipp and Pipp both just sit there in a tired expression, Izzy’s snoring and mumbling kept them up all night, which didn’t allow them to get any sleep. Izzy trotted to the main room with a happy expression. "Oo-ooh! Morning!" she said to her friends, as they were too tired to do anything but listen to the hyper active Unicorn. "Don't you just love waking up to a new morning? It is just so new and morningy!" she exclaimed, and then hummed out of the main room, unknowingly to know that her friends are tired. "Waking up?" Zipp questioned with a very tired expression. "We didn't sleep!" she pointed out, since Izzy didn't allow them to sleep properly. "Uhh... Was that my tiara?" Pipp questioned, noticing that Izzy had something on her forehead. The mares then walked to the kitchen, seeing a bit of mess that Izzy made. Zipp grabbed her hairspray as it puffed out, revealing that it was empty. Pipp grabbed her phone, and saw it messy with peanut butter oozing out. "Ugh!" Pipp groaned in disgust. Zipp then saw her crossword book, seeing that Izzy scribbled it out with the pen from earlier. She grabbed the book to take a closer look as her right eye began to twitch. She then ran towards Sunny, showing her what happened. "Everything's ruined!" she cried out. Pipp came toward her sister's side as she looked at Sunny, about to freak out as well. "Sunny, you have to do something!" she pleaded, "Izzy's becoming a total nightmare roommate!" she pointed to the unicorn on the other side. Izzy was trotting by still humming, then gobbled down a cereal as she throw the box away and she continued humming, walking away with a cheerful expression. Sunny groaned tiredly, not knowing exactly what to do with Izzy. She decided to go to the bathroom to brush her teeth. "They're probably just cranky because they didn't get much--any--sleep..." she though, trying to defend Izzy somehow. "And... Uh, where's my toothbrush?" she asked to herself. Izzy then opened the door and she poked her head out. "Hey, Sunny! Love your ear-cleaner…" she said, then brought out Sunny’s electric toothbrush and turned it on. Sunny turned around and looked at Izzy in shock, as the unicorn brought Sunny’s toothbrush to her ear. "Oh, yeah. Mm, uh-huh..." she said, as Sunny looked on with her mouth open, while Izzy was using her toothbrush to clean her ears. "And my ears have never been so minty fresh!" she commented as she giggled and shut the door, leaving Sunny alone and shocked. Sunny then turned to the mirror with a determined look: she was going to solve this problem with Izzy, because using her toothbrush to clean her ears was crossing the line. "Okay. Something's gotta be done!" she spoke out. A little while later, the three ponies walked through Maretime Bay, wanting to solve this problem as Sunny explained to Zipp and Pipp about her problem. "But confronting Izzy is just too awkward and embarrassing…" she added, since discussing with Izzy means that they might accidentally hurt her feelings and find it awkward to argue with her over the small things. Suddenly, a blue blur passed by them, and it started running around all the buildings of Maretime Bay, then passed by them again and ran towards the Brighthouse, but it ran outside of the building and then ran over the water, to quickly ran towards some kind of toy on a high spot. The blue blur started to slow down a little, revealing to be Sonic, smiling while looking straight into the toy. Sonic then jumped, still a bit far from the toy, but once he was at the same height, he used his 'boost' ability to move faster in the air, and then grabbed the toy, to finally stomp back to the ground. The mares where looking at him with her jaws drop, and Pipp felt her wings opening suddenly as she was blushing, but quickly closed them and tied to think on other thing so the blush could go away. "Phew!" Sonic exclaimed, wiping the sweat from his forehead. "Here you go, little buddy" he said to an earth pony foal, who was looking at him with sparkling eyes and a smile. "Next time, try to not trow it off to high, okey?" "Thank you, mr hedgehog!" the foal thanked, and then ran away laughing with his toy. "Your welcome, kiddo. And please, just call me Sonic!" he pled. "Ah, kids will be kids, I guess..." He then turned to look at his mare friends, but when he saw the dark circles under their eyes, he immediately felt bad for them. "Geez, girls. Seems like you couldn't sleep at all after what happened last night" he said, approaching to them. "Yeah... Izzy kept snoring and mumbling loud after she levitated my bedsheet as a ghost..." Pipp replied, and then yawned. "And not only that... she's also using our stuff and messing up everything!" Zipp exclaimed. "We're trying to figure out what to do, and how to face her without feeling awkward..." Sunny explained. "Well, if you ask me, I think you should just spill the beans on her face" Sonic suggested, but the mares blinked at him without understanding. "Could you elaborate a bit?" Zipp asked. Sonic just facepalmed and looked at them with a boring expression."Go to the point, tell her the truth, don't hesitate, c'mon girls, is not that difficult!" he exclaimed. "Look, just face Izzy and tell her what is bothering you about her. Being honest hasn't kill anyone as far as I know, and as cheerful as Izzy might be, I'm pretty sure she's also reasonable, so she'll understand. I find her trying to use my hair gel, but I told her that it would be good if she didn't took my stuff without asking, so she smiled at me and left... and yes, I use a hair gel so my quills can get straight and not messy, leave me alone." "Yeah... But we could also might hurt her feelings, Sonic" Sunny pointed out. "And I don’t want our friend to be crying if we tell her that. Ooh! I know! Let's ask Hitch, he'll know what to do!" she exclaimed with a smile, as Zipp and Pipp looked at her with a bored expression. "Okey then, but I'm pretty sure he's gonna say the same thing to you" Sonic warned with a little smirk. "Anyways, gotta go now, see ya!" he exclaimed, as he ran away quickly. Walking to Hitch’s Sheriff place, the three ponies walked inside as they open the front door and saw Hitch on his desk, playing with his landline phone. But as he did a bad movement, the wires of the phone tangled Hitch around, and he saw that his friends were looking at him with blank looks. Hitch chuckled nervously and embarrassed that his friends had to see that, then twirled around. When he stopped spinning, he was a bit and fell to the ground with a thud from his dizziness. This leaves startling gasps from Sunny, Pipp, and Zipp as they look at Hitch, wondering if he was okay. A few minutes after Hitch recovered, the girls told him about their problem with Izzy. Hitch hung up the phone and gave the girls some advice. “Well it sounds to me that Sonic's right, you just have to be honest with Izzy” he said, agreeing to Sonic's idea of tell Izzy the truth. "As a pony of the law, I can tell you honesty is always the best policy!" he assured with a confident smile. "Hey!" a voice yelled out, and it turned to be a light blue earth pony named Rufus, who was wearing a jail hat and was in a cell. Hitch caught him doing something against the law earlier and put him in the cell until his short sentence was finished. "Keep it down, will ya? I'm tryin' to get some peace in here!" he yelled out, then turned his back against the others and faced the wall. "Hold on one second" Hitch told his friends with a smile, knowing what to do as he came to the cell with a teacup, giving it to Rufus. Rufus turned his head as he saw the teacup and smiled. "Aw, oh this is lovely!" he said in a happy tone, then sipped some of the tea. "My favorite! Thanks, Hitch. Uh, sorry I bothered ya" he apologized for his outburst earlier. Hitch then turned to his friends with a smile. "Of course, sometimes a thoughtful gift can work wonders" he winked at them. Sunny, Pipp, and Zipp all blinked at the same time twice before getting an idea for Izzy. "Ohh!" they all said in unison. Back at the Crystal Brighthouse, Sunny presents a present to Izzy as the three mares smile at her. "You guys got me... a BOX!?" Izzy said in excitement as she grabbed the box and held it in her hooves. "I love it! Best gift ever!" she cheered as she held the box. "Uh, Izzy. The gift is inside the box...?" Zipp called out with a sheepish smile, seeing that Izzy didn’t know the gift was inside. "Oh...!" Izzy said as she started to laugh as she opened the box, but then stopped laughing as she looked at what was inside with a look. She looked through the box, finding a hairspray, a crossword book and a toothbrush. "Your own stuff" Sunny announced. "So, you don't need to use ours anymore!" she added with a smile along with the rest of her friends. Izzy then chuckled nervously, not sure what to say, but she saw where they’re going with this. "'Cause... it was getting kinda annoying" Zipp added sheepishly to her with a smile. "Hey! Honesty is the best policy, right?" she asked Izzy from the motto that Hitch told them earlier. Then the four ponies stood in silence as Sunny, Zipp and Pipp waited for Izzy to respond on what she thought about what they said and what they gave her. They stare down at each other as the three mares begin to sweat, thinking that their honesty and gift for Izzy didn’t work. Izzy then stared at them with a sad look for a few seconds until she went back to her cheerful look as she smiled at them. "Oh! Well, in that case, I don't really like these presents!" she called out as she placed the gifts back into the box and gave it back to Sunny. "Honesty!” Izzy cheered as she explained why she used all that. "I was just taking selfies of my breakfast like Pipp, doing my hair like Zipp, and scrubbing my ears like Sunny! I also tried to die my hair like Sonic, but he told me not to without permission" she explained, which caused the mares to gasp, realizing that both Sonic and Hitch were right about being honest. "I've never lived with best friends before. I was just trying to fit in with you all" Izzy admitted. "Huh" both Zipp and Pipp said as they faced each other. "We should've been honest from the start!" Sunny said, then walked to Izzy and placed a hoof on her shoulder. "Izzy, you don't need to try and fit in" she told her, as Zipp and Pipp came to her. "You're already perfect as you are" Zipp pointed out as the group gave a comforting smile to Izzy. Izzy looked at her friends with a loving smile, as they reunited on a group hug, without noticing that their Cutie Marks started to glow. "Whoof, great! 'Cause trying to fit in is…" Izzy said, and then yawned in mid sentence before continuing. "So exhausting..." She then walked to the couch as she lay on it. "I just need a…" she then went to sleep as she snores loudly. The three ponies looked at her while she slept, really annoyed because Izzy’s snoring was the main problem for their sleep. "We can work on that..." Sunny called out, as Pipp facehoofed herself at Izzy’s annoying snoring. At the police station, Hitch let Rufus go since he had already served his short sentence, so now he was just reading a few complaints from the mailbox. Suddenly, Sonic walked quickly through the front door and immediately closed it, leaning against the door and looking at Hitch with a worried expression and a nervous smile. "Hey there, partner..." Sonic greeted the sheriff. "Can I talk to you? Man to man..." "Hello Sonic" Hitch greeted back, getting up from his desk and approaching Sonic. "Of course!" "Great!" the hedgehog exclaimed, still with a nervous smile, while he locked the door of the police station and also closed the shutters. "Uh, why did you just...?" Hitch was going to ask, but Sonic cut him off. "First of all, SWEAR to me that not a word I say right here, right now, will leave this station" Sonic asked with a serious expression and staring at Hitch. "I-I..." Hitch tried to reply. "SWEAR IT, TRAILBLAZER!" Sonic yelled, this time a bit more violent. "Ok, ok. I swear, calm down now" Hitch requested. "Okay…" Sonic said, starting to calm down a bit. "I'd like to make it clear that I'm entrusting this to you because I highly doubt the girls can keep it a secret." "Really?" Hitch asked confused, "Don't you think that's overkill? I know they could keep it as well as I can..." "Izzy would tell immediately after I told her not to, Sunny is bad at lying, Zipp hates lying and Pipp would live stream the entire conversation" Sonic explained with a bored expression. Hitch blinked a few times with one helmet up and his mouth open, but then lowered his helmet as he had no way to contradict Sonic. "Ok, good point. So what do you want to tell me that's so secret that only I know about it?" the sheriff asked in a whisper. Sonic didn't answer, and instead walked over to the sheriff's desk. From his spikes, he pulled out a small bag, and Hitch looked at him even more confused. "Remember those Emeralds I talked about when we were heading to Bridlewood for the first time?" Sonic asked. "Uh, yeah. What were they called? Chaotic Emeralds? Disastrous Emeralds…" Hitch tried to remember. "Chaos Emeralds" Sonic corrected, with a hint of concern. "Ah yes, those. Yes, I remember. You said they can help you get back home. Why do you ask?" the sheriff questioned. "Well..." Sonic flipped the bag on the desk, and the 3 Emeralds he found a few days ago fell into it. Hitch's jaw dropped, for now he understood why Sonic wanted to keep this conversation a secret. "But what...? How did you...? When did you...?!" Hitch asked endlessly. "The day before we decorated the Brighthouse, I went for a walk in a forest I've never been to, and I found them" Sonic answered, as he started pacing the station. "But this... this is a good thing, isn't it?" Hitch asked, a little wistfully since he didn't want Sonic to leave, but at the same time happy that he already had a way to get back home. "It means you can get your friends back home!" "I thought the same... but I can't go back..." Sonic confessed with a sad look. "What?!" Hitch exclaimed. "Why not?" "Because I already tried, but just like now, the Emeralds aren't shining like they usually do" the hedgehog began to explain. "When I touched them when I found them, they stopped glowing. I've tried to reactivate them again, but it doesn't work. And my new power managed to power them, but they almost went through the room, so using that isn't an option either..." "So, you can't go back yet…" Hitch deduced. "No… but it's funny, because that's not what worries me the most…" Sonic revealed, now with an analytical look. "There's 7 Emeralds, and they were all together when the portal sucked me in, but I only found 3 of them, which means there are still 4 Chaos Emeralds out there that have probably also lost their power. I'm afraid they'll fall into the wrong hands, or hooves in this case, and be used for the destruction of this world..." Now Hitch had a worried look, and though on what to say now. But he then got an idea, and looked at Sonic with confidence. "...I'll help you find them, Sonic" assured Hitch. "What?! No!" Sonic refused to accept help. "This is my problem, and you have enough taking over Maretime Bay, dude. This is my fight..." "Now it's mine too" assured Hitch again with a confident smile. "You confessed this to me, and I won't say anything. But helping someone in need is what a sheriff does, and I'll help you whether you want it or not." "...I don't want to cause you trouble, Hitch..." Sonic assured. "And you won't, but I'm not going to leave you alone in this either" Hitch said with a smile. Sonic smiled back, and looked determinedly at the Emeralds on the desk. "Fine. So, until we figure this out, we won't tell anyone about the Emeralds…" he said firmly, and Hitch nodded in agreement. Now, the two had a mission: discover how to reactivate the Chaos Emeralds, and find the location of the missing ones... THE END...?